Fun at the Burger King

As everyone knows, I always take PJ and usually Trey out to dinner and to the Walmart on Thursday evenings. This Thursday last, we went to the Burger King in Draper. The boys had the playground all to themselves and played for almost an hour. PJ started being silly and put on a bag instead of the BK crown. The reason he looks so funny is because I was trying to get him in a pose where I could see his face and the bag. As you can see, it took some contortions to get it.

Are We finished with Winter?

Looking at the photos taken by Richie this last weekend brought back fond memories of this winter's best snowstorms. We have actually had a fairly mild winter as far as snow goes. As far as temperature is concerned, we've had some very cold days and the inversions have been terrible. We're lucky here in Bluffdale that a significant number of folks have tractors and other assorted pieces of heavy equipment. Ron Johnson to the SE across the street has lots of equipment and has done a lot of work on the lane, winter and summer. Pictured above is Tim Llewellyn on his dad John's tractor scraping the snow off the driveway. As I recall, we only had about 5 or 6 inches, but when it is wet and heavy, it's a lot of work to remove. Now, in the second week of February, the snow has melted and the temperature is fairly mild. I hope it stays that way.

Parker's Fourth Birthday

January 22, 2010 was PJ's fourth birthday. I guess he had quite a celebration with the Grayson's at Chucky Cheese. The Wilcox sponsored birthday party was a lot quieter I'm sure; it was on Sunday, you know. We were going to have enchiladas but when JoAnn asked PJ what he wanted he replied "cheese pizza". So on Saturday, I went over to Papa Murphy's and got several pizzas including a cheese pizza so we could cook them on Sunday. However, when PJ arrived and was shown the cheese pizza, he definitely wanted chicken noodle soup. Senta made the lovely cake and the rest of us ate the pizza. For all of PJ's birthday photos, go to this link.

More Christmas

Over the the Holidays, when Richie is home, we go out to eat as a family several times. We had a debate on where to go the Wednesday after Richie got home and really couldn't agree. What made it bad was it was a total blizzard outside so we didn't want to go far. We ended up going to Chili's in Riverton because it was close. PJ had a blue raspberry drink as you can see.


I'm not even sure what day it was but one day we went to El Rancho Grande in Draper. The nice thing about this place is that it is never crowded. The food is also pretty good. PJ doesn't eat much of anything but we got him chicken fingers and fries. He was fascinated by the ketchup squirt bottle and spent most of his time carefully putting just the right amount of it on each fry.

Where's Santa?

It's Christmas Eve 2009, so of course we go outside to look for Santa. The weatherman on the TV says Santa has been sighted on radar so we rush outside to look for him. PJ swears he saw Santa and who am I to doubt a nearly 4-year old?




At Christmas time, even the dogs get into the act. Notice the holiday collars the the doggie treat Christmas presents. They're part of the family, aren't they?




PJ got some Transformer toys and Spongebob pajamas. His two favorites.

To see all of the Wilcox Family photos, go to my picasa page.

Pumpkin Patch 2009

Here it is almost Christmas and I am posting about choosing pumpkins. I guess I'm behind again. Anyway, we went to a different pumpkin patch this year and they had a bunch of old tractors for PJ to sit on and pretend to drive.



It was hard for us to choose one pumpkin so we got a wheelbarrow and choose a bunch.